Inside 43215: Downtown Draw
ALPHA AND OMEGA
Every year, Race for the Cure honors the fight of millions of mothers and daughters. The race itself is an honorable tradition: it’s not about speed or time, but about a common cause, ending breast cancer.
This tradition honors downtown by making it the Alpha and Omega of the race – we are proud to host both the official Start and Finish lines. And someplace between those two lines, the ground will shake beneath the racers’ feet.
That’s not an allegory; that’s a cold, hard Richter Scale fact. Every year, a thundering contingent of Harley Riders comes out to honor the racers themselves.
While you can’t actually measure the ground-shaking power of a motorcycle with a seismograph, you can count the revving engines. Organizers are expecting more than 100 Harley Riders to amass together on the sidelines of the race route. That sort of raw horsepower really does make the ground shake, literally speaking.
It’s now an annual gathering for the bikers. Sarah Irvin Clark, who works to promote the event, says that the tradition started four years ago by A.D. Farrow in order to honor riders who have fought breast cancer. Its team includes a male breast cancer survivor, and he’s a powerful reminder that the disease can hit anyone.
The impact of all the power of those bikes and big hearts is awe inspiring. Clark said it best: “It gets everyone pumped.”
And revved up too.
